Byzance
MovieTitle | Byzance |
User score | 6.3 |
Release date | Jan 1, 1964 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Maurice Pialat |
Production country | France |
Production companies | Como Film |
Run time | 11 min. |
Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453. Before he turned to feature filmmaking in 1968 with Naked Childhood, Pialat worked on a series of short films, many of them financed by French television. Byzance is one of Pialat’s six Turkish shorts.